Colorado Revised Statutes Title 22. Education § 22-2-147. Menstrual hygiene products accessibility grant program--eligibility--report--rules--definitions

(a) A local education provider if it has fifty percent or more students enrolled who are eligible for free or reduced-cost lunch pursuant to the federal “Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act”, 42 U.S.C. sec. 1751 et seq.;

(b) The Colorado school for the deaf and the blind, created and existing pursuant to section 22-80-102(1)(a);

(c) An approved facility school, as defined in section 22-2-402(1); or

(d) A rural school district, a small rural district, a charter school of a rural school district or a small rural district, or an institute charter school located within the geographic boundaries of a rural school district or small rural school district.

(6)(a) On or before October 1, 2022, and on or before October 1 each year thereafter, each grant recipient shall submit a report to the department. The report must include information concerning the amount of money spent on the acquisition and distribution of menstrual hygiene products and the amount of money spent on the acquisition, installation, and maintenance of a dispensing machine or disposal receptacle for menstrual hygiene products.

(b) On or before January 2, 2023, and on or before January 2 each year thereafter, the department shall submit a summarized report of the information received pursuant to subsection (6)(a) of this section to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives, or any successor committees.

(c) Notwithstanding the requirement in section 24-1-136(11)(a)(I), the requirement to submit the report required in this subsection (6) continues indefinitely.

(a) “Grant program” means the menstrual hygiene products accessibility grant program created and existing pursuant to this section.

(b) “Local education provider” means a school district, a charter school authorized by a school district pursuant to part 1 of article 30.5 of this title 22, a charter school authorized by the state charter school institute pursuant to part 5 of article 30.5 of this title 22, or a board of cooperative services created and operating pursuant to article 5 of this title 22 that operates one or more public schools.

(c) “Menstrual hygiene products” means tampons, menstrual pads, and pantiliners.

(d) “Rural school district” means a school district that the department of education determines is rural, based on the geographic size of the school district and the distance of the school district from the nearest large, urbanized area.

(e) “Small rural school district” means a school district that the department of education determines is rural, based on the geographic size of the school district and the distance of the school district from the nearest large, urbanized area, and that enrolls fewer than one thousand two hundred students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.